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He So Small Only Need One Popcon or Plankton Holding Popcorn is an exploitable image macro meme showing Plankton from SpongeBob SquarePants sitting in a movie theatre seat holding a piece of popcorn and smiling, captioned, "He so small only need one popcon." The meme was originally posted to the splongebob Instagram page on August 19th, 2025, and gained viral spread after it was reposted on X / Twitter, inspiring redraws and becoming a reaction image in TikTok comment sections.

Origin

On August 19th, 2025, Instagram^[1] user splongebob posted an image macro using a screenshot from SpongeBob SquarePants season one, episode 10b, "F.U.N."^[2] of Plankton holding a piece of popcorn and watching a movie. The image is captioned, "He so small only need one popcon." The post gained over 235,000 likes in a month.

Spread

On August 20th, 2025, X^[3] user @moristiko reposted the popcorn meme, garnering over 132,000 likes and 8,500 reposts in a month. The meme quickly inspired edits and redraws.

For example, on August 21st, X^[4] user @Zacky8444 posted a piece of fan art redrawing the meme to reference VTuber Gigi Murin, garnering over 520 likes in a month.

On September 9th, X^[5] user @ posted an edit of the meme replacing Plankton with Aoba Seragaki from DRAMAtical Murder, garnering over 1,600 likes in 10 days.

On September 15th, the frowningfriendshq Instagram^[6] page reposted a Smiling Friends version of the meme originally created by Instagram^[7] user thealiendoesnthaveeyesight that replaces Plankton with Glep, garnering over 10,000 likes in four days.

On September 18th, 2025, the CoolMathGames Instagram^[8] page posted a version of the meme featuring the character from the game Run, garnering over 15,300 likes in a day.

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